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VideoUtility Sync?

Sun, 07/18/2010 - 23:25 — perholmes

Hi there,
I think the Video Utility is fine, but it only supports a single proxy, and it's fully manual. This is confusing the heck out of my wife, who both has to enable a proxy in Firefox and then also the Video Utility.
How about removing all GUI from the Video Utility and simply tying it to FoxyProxy? Then you can simply have a preference for each proxy in FoxyProxy called "Use Video Utility", which turns it on. Yes, it has to request to reboot Firefox, but the point is that then it's only a single GUI operation, a LOT less confusing, and it allows you to use any number of proxies, instead of just a single one that has to manually be entered.
The Video Utility, at present, feels rushed to market because it's so disconnected from FoxyProxy, yet requires it to be enabled along with the Video Utility. It would seem like a small task to make them feel like a single application, even if they do two different things. It means that to use proxy, you always have to turn it on in two places, and when you're done, you have to turn two things off.
Best,
Per
 

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Fri, 07/23/2010 - 19:37 — MickolasJae

Re: VideoUtility Sync

In earlier versions of FoxyProxy sites such as youtube seemed to work fine with using a given proxy. Now that the Video Utility has been developed users are forced to use this with the FoxyProxy and has really diminished the value. I love FoxyProxy but hate the video utility. It seems to me that websites have no issues using the new proxy but pages with Adobe Flash player try to use the IP address without the proxy. From my understanding, what the Video Utility does is redirects Adobe Flash player to use whichever proxy and port you specify in the setttings.

Fri, 07/23/2010 - 20:23 — ericjung

Hi, You aren't forced to use

Hi,

You aren't forced to use the Video Utility. Youtube and other sites changed the way Flash proxies requests, and we had to develop an operating-system level tool to handle it. FoxyProxy in the browser just doesn't have access to system calls (yet)... but with the implementation of ctypes in Firefox 4.0, we can now theoretically do it.

I'll investigate more integrating the two.

Eric